Usually, there’s nothing funny in a situation where a website finds itself insecure, but there’s an exception for those worrying about HADOPI law in France. The website of the French National Assembly turns out to be vulnerable to hack.

Another country is developing its copyright bill, and this one puts in danger Creative Commons license. A draft Czech copyright bill has recently leaked online, revealing one of the most disturbing things ever created in the copyright field.

President of the Recording Industry Association of America Cary Sherman said recently they were looking forward to the law formalizing the “voluntary” cooperation between rights owners and service providers to tackle unauthorized file-sharing. Moreover, they want such cooperation to extend to advertisers, payment processors, and search engines.

Recently the calculations have been made to estimate the cost of the French “three-strikes” legislation, HADOPI. The results were around $64 Million per year, which should’ve scared the government to death. Nevertheless, that’s all about France. What about the other countries where the music industry insists on the similar legislation?

Australia lacks an 18+ rating for video games, meaning that MA 15+ has to be considered by the game developers as the highest classification they can rely on. Thus they are limited to the creation of games suitable for 15-year-olds at best. Besides, the fee to have game reviewed by the Aussie’s Classification board ranges from $500 to $2000, becoming a tough call for those developers who aren’t sure about the quantity of the copies they will manage to sell.

John Lovelock, the CEO for Federation Against Software Theft, says that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker website The Pirate Bay was sold for $7.5 million last year, providing its owners with a money windfall. The only tiny problem is that it actually never happened.

Tim Kuik, The managing director for BREIN (Dutch anti-piracy outfit) is reported to track down in Austria the co-owner of the world’s most popular BitTorrent website. The reason was to deliver him a copy of a decision handed out by the Dutch court against him in person as reported by TorrentFreak